dunch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A push; knock; bump. dialectal
    — And just at the same time the tide caught the brig, and threw the wind out of her sails. She came round into the wind like a top, and the next moment struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck, and came near to shake Mr. Riach from his place upon the mast.
  2. A leisurely meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually instead of lunch or dinner. informal,rare
    — I have a lunchtime meeting tomorrow, so let's have dunch together instead.
  3. A fat hit from a claggy lie.
动词 v.
  1. To knock against; to hit, punch Geordie
  2. To crash into; to bump into. Geordie
  3. To gore with the horns, as a bull. Scotland
  4. To push, jog, or nudge, especially with the elbow. UK

词形变化

dunches present,singular,third-person dunching participle,present dunchin participle,present dunched participle,past dunched past dunsh alternative dunches plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dunchen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from the noun (see below); or of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish diunga (“to hit, knock”), dialectal Swedish dunka (“to beat”); or from Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan (“to knock, ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to bang, knock”). Compare English dinge.
词源 2
From Middle English dunche, perhaps from Old English *dynċ, from Proto-Germanic *dunkiz.
Compare Old Norse dykr, dynkr (“a crashing noise”), Danish dunk (“a blow”), Swedish dunk (“a thump, clap”), Norwegian dunk (“a knock, bump”).
词源 3
Blend of dinner + lunch, probably in imitation of brunch.
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